Taiwan journalist Fausto Chou interviewed by Asharq News about China's threat to Taiwan

Fausto Chou, an Eat News reporter from Taiwan, was asked in an interview on the Middle East television channel Asharq News' news commentary program about the President of Taiwan's stated plans for cooperation between the U.S. National Guard and Taiwan's military as the U.S. deepens security ties in the face of growing threats from China that the Taipei government has complained about. This comes after Taiwan deployed combat aircraft to warn China of 30 aircraft sent to its air defense zone, the second major Chinese incursion this year. What kind of cooperation can the United States offer Taiwan without violating Washington's commitment to the one-China principle? How will China accept this decision, and how might it react? What is the context in which we should interpret China's invasion yesterday?

To this, Chou responded, "On October 14 of last year, as a young male in Taiwan, I began my four-month military training obligation. I can tell you that during this time, I was told by a Special Forces officer that U.S. Special Forces were already training Taiwan's Special Forces in Taiwan, even though the U.S. and Taiwan's military denied it at the time. Last week, US President Biden came to East Asia and met with the president of South Korea and the prime minister of Japan. At a press conference, President Biden said that the US would respond 'militarily' if China attacked Taiwan. This is not a Kinsley gaffe by President Biden, is U.S. foreign policy since the Trump administration has clear China as the current enemy of the United States, and as the former chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, President Biden is well clear of this."

Chou mentioned that the question of how the U.S. will defend Taiwan militarily? There are two different views within Taiwan. One is Taiwan unlike Ukraine, the U.S. Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979, a law that allows the U.S. government to sell arms to Taiwan, and the U.S. has no similar law for Ukraine. In addition, overseas Taiwanese have influence in Washington, D.C., including sponsoring members of Congress, which gives Taiwan protection from the United States. Another opinion is that Taiwan, like Ukraine, is not a member of any U.S.-led military alliance, such as NATO. So if China invaded Taiwan, the U.S. would only provide Taiwan with weapons, not send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan.

Chou concluded by saying that right now, no one knows what the Americans will do because there is no war in the Taiwan Strait. And the Chinese regime is too busy with their fantasy "Zero Covid" policy these months to pay attention to the affairs of other countries. Don't forget that China had a "one child policy" which made their parents very protective of the only child in the family. Do you think they will let their children go to war just to cooperate with the Chinese Communist regime to attack Taiwan?

Asharq News is an Arabic news channel launched in 2020 by the Saudi Research and Marketing Group in collaboration with Bloomberg News.